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Who is my government representative? How can I contact her?

1/26/26 #kihei KCA has long advocated for community members to be active participants to improve the quality  of our part of our Island home. Often do ing so means communicating with elected officials. But who is that & how can I reach them?? There is a new tool that can help with that.  the 2026 edition of the Hawaiʻi Directory of Public Officials   Hawai‘i Directory of Public Officials. PC: Pacific Resource Partnership. Pacific Resource Partnership announced the release of...

2026 Whale Day Parade on Sunday February 15

1/26/26 kihei# Are you ready for the parade on South Kihei Road on Sunday morning, as this festive event returns to celebrate our annual visitors from the North, the Humpback Whales?   Some participate; some spectate; some appreciate       https://pacificwhale.org/world-whale-day-2026/#feb15

State of Hawaii three foot law. Do you observe it when driving; experience it when cycling?

1/24/26  #kihei   (HB2215), enacted on June 20, 2018, requires motorists to allow a minimum of three feet of clearance when overtaking a bicyclist. Drivers must maintain this distance until safely past the cyclist. Are you aware of this law? When driving past a cyclist, do you obey it? Did you know Motorists may drive to the left of the center of the road—even in no-passing zones—to safely pass a cyclist, provided the lane is clear of oncoming traffic?        ...

Second egress/ingress under construction to the Lipoa Development from the Pi’ilani Highway

1/22/26  #kihei   Back before it was rebranded as Lipoa  https://www.lipoamaui.com/   this huge development project in central Kihei, mauka of the Pi'ilani Hwy,  it was the Research and Technology  (R & T) Park, the Kihei and Maui versions. But as the vision of it being  a research center faded, and commercial, residential and the school were constructed. the new name was Lipoa. But much of the original plan remained in place, including a second...
State Department of Health Maui Meeting on Cesspools

State Department of Health Maui Meeting on Cesspools

UPDATE 10/15/14 Your Association submitted testimony that we agreed for a need to remove and replace these devices with something more modern & efficient in our area to help preserve the quality of out near shore waters & protect the coral reef system in...

South Maui Event presented  by Maui Business Brainstormers

South Maui Event presented by Maui Business Brainstormers

Renowned though the neighbor islands and beyond for his environmental actions, particularity concerning preserving and strengthening the coral reef system, Robert Winter, aka Snorkel Bob, will be giving a presentation later this month in Wailea at the Fairmont Kea...

Meeting this Tuesday on Impact of FEMA on S. Maui

Meeting this Tuesday on Impact of FEMA on S. Maui

Long  time friend to KCA Lucienne De Naie for the MNMRC will lead panel discussion on learning the impact of FEMA's revised floodplain map for South Maui to ascertain" the impact on nearby businesses and infrastructure and how it now effects <sic> Kihei's...

Mayor’s Office Regional Budget Meeting in  Kihei 10/6/14

Mayor’s Office Regional Budget Meeting in Kihei 10/6/14

  UPDATE 10/7/14 While we were unable to be present for the 500 PM commencement, upon arriving at 5:30, the Administration's team outnumbered those attending at last evening's (10/6/14) 2015 budget meeting presented by Mayor Arakawa. The announced new format of...

Tuesday’s  Community Meeting Focuses on General Election

Tuesday’s Community Meeting Focuses on General Election

On Tuesday (10/21/14) at the Kihei Charter Middle School (41 E Lipoa) at 6:30 PM, KCA welcomes six Maui County Candidates for three offices in a forum for those who are registered, and do vote. For County Council, we have Kahului's incumbent Don Guzman & returning...

County Planning Committee Bill on Home-Based Businesses Passes

UPDATE 10/3/14    PC 33, This Home Based Business Bill arose as scheduled this afternoon in the Committee, with the absence of any community testimony. Thus the five members of the committee's total of seven who were present, went through the often revised bill,...

How Many Cats are in your Neighborhood?

How Many Cats are in your Neighborhood?

If we start with the basic question, how many cats are there on the Island, for years the answers went from ridiculous to absurd in number, as truth is no one knew. But most agree too many. Then the “solution” was to trap cats and kill them ad infinitum, and we see...

KCA comments on the Pi’ilani Promenade’s DEIS

KCA comments on the Pi’ilani Promenade’s DEIS

UPDATE 10/1/14.   As advertised (below) we have submitted our comments on the Draft EIS and submitted to all the proper recipients  in a seventeen page document  seehttps://gokihei.org/wp-content/uploads/PiilaniPromDraftEISesponseV2b.pdf . Now we all wait.. UPDATE...

KCA DRC Scores the Kenolio Apartment Project

KCA DRC Scores the Kenolio Apartment Project

  At this morning’s (9/25/14) presentation by Chris Hart and Partners (CHP), which included Ashley and Stacy Otomo of Otomo Engineering Inc. (OTI) and audio input from the developer Pacific West Companies' (PWC) Doug Gibson and Don Slattery via conference call...

Alliance of Maui Community Associations Meeting

Alliance of Maui Community Associations Meeting

At this month's Alliance meeting this Monday 9/21/14, the group examined a laundry list of ways the County government can improve for the benefit of the residents. By compiling a list of issues, concerns and problems, the group worked to decide which segment of...